Your Mobile Games/Applications: Are they safe for you? or Your Family?

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[ UUID ] 56753df2-8309-46e3-b5ac-e241c626fb61

[ Session Name ] Your Mobile Games/Applications: Are they safe for you? or Your Family? [ Primary Space ] Privacy and Security [ Secondary Space ] Openness

[ Submitter's Name ] Hossain Al Ikram [ Submitter's Affiliated Organisation ] Mozilla [ Submitter's GitHub ] @hossainalikram

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[ Language ] Bengali Hindi

[ Localisation Support Requested ] No, I can host the session myself

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What will happen in your session?

Internet Users in Asia mostly uses mobile apps like nothing.They are vulnerable to trackers which come through mobile-apps/games.Youth's uses games to pass their leisure not knowing the possible vulnerability.They allow permission to most of the apps which occurs malware/spam to their devices,popups/ads and in worse cases,they are attacked by cyber bullying or even identity hack.

This session will be to showcase/mirror the apps/games we use,the access/permission we grant to use them and things we should be aware of to be safe online.This is mostly ideal for kids/youth who are regular user of technologies but not aware of the privacy concerns.I will try to focus on the audience and their use-cases for applications/games and how to be better protect ourselves

What is the goal or outcome of your session?

My session is focused in audience to aware about our physical scenarios that we are involved with usage of mobile apps/ games in daily life. The outcome of this session would be the audience will (re)think about the permission they used to give while using an application and learn about few basic things to stay safe in online.

Time needed

less than 60 mins

[ryanwarsaw]

@hossainalikram This is a unique concept, I think it's great. I think you could expand this out into some of the other issues with the mobile gaming industry (aggressive micro-transactions, the psychology around how they get you to buy into these types of things, where you normally wouldn't).

I'm curious as to how you plan to engage the audience, I've found that in general lecture-type sessions don't typically do as well, I also don't know if we have smartphones on site that could help facilitate an engagement factor, just something to think about, nonetheless this has a lot of potential.

[hossainalikram]

Hi @ryanwarsaw , Thanks for appreciating! I had plan to include gaming as well as payments or in app ads that user ( specially kids as most of them likely to be in online ) has to go through. Sometimes, There is more abusive content + ads which is an general scenario for kids, which will all be a part of the contents.

Well, I think all the attendees would have brought an smartphone, where we will have the opportunity to dig in with what type of apps/ game they use and what those apps/games wants them to share before they can use those. There smartphone would be an case research to identify whats happening in our own end to facilitate discussion over broader users of the internet. Even, If any attending the session doesn't have an smart phone, will be asked to use sticky and visualize his apps/games and what those takes to be online.

I am open to more suggestion on how I can design this to be more Open and Inclusive to be more better, so everyone can adopt this to their communities and also can prototype this to wherever they are living, even to their kids, so from our own place, we can be safe or at least, aware everyone about try to be safe about online presence.

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